Microchilus sororius (Garay) E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

Drawing of Erythrodes soraria by © Dodson & Vasquez 1989

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Common Name The Sisterly Microchilus

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Amazonas department of Peru and Bolivia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1880 to 2390 meters as a small to medium sized [in flower], cool growing terrestrial with a prostrate, becoming erect, fragile, nodose stem carrying narrowly lanceolate, light green with dark green stripes, acute, undulate margined, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, lightly sinuous, slender, racemose, peduncle terete, glabrous, with 2 to 3 bracts, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, rachis pulverulent, 4" [10 cm] long overall, laxly, successively single, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

"Separated from others by the linear-lanceolate, to narrowly lanceolate, acute leaves, with 2 longitudinal stripes of dark green, light green in the center with undulate margins and a narrowly cylindrical spur that is .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long, and .032" [.8 mm] in diameter." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017

Synonyms Aspidogyne sororia (Garay) Ormerod 2007; Erythrodes soraria (Garay) Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989; Stephanothelys sororia Garay 1977

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bradea 2: 200 Garay 1977 as Stephanothelys sororia

Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 232 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as Erythrodes soraria drawing fide

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 151 Ormerod 2007 as Aspidogyne sororia

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 1: 429 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017 as Aspidogyne soraria drawing fide;

* Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 197: 344 E.C.Smidt & M.W.Chase 2021

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